To him.īut Mom (Jennifer Garner) has the stress of all these kids and a book marketing job where she’s expected to dazzle 24/7. And the tumbling dominoes of disarray around him, his baby brother, would-be-actress sister (Kerris Dorsey) and prom king brother (Dylan Minnette) only add to that sense. “An epic disaster?” To his 12 year-old mind, maybe. But getting up after every knock-down is the only sure cure.Īlexander (Ed Oxenbould) is the wimpy kid, here, whose “Very Bad Day” begins with gum in his hair. That’s what the film version kicks around around the block, and rather amusingly, a few times. Parents who smile all the time, who make light of the weight of the world kids carry around sometimes? Annoying, especially to those kids. Whatever else children take from Judith Viorst’s delightful “Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day,” the sly subtext this picture-heavy book is how exhausting and sometimes misguided the optimism of the eternally optimistic can be.
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